Married on main????

Hmm.... We have been talking abd thinking about marriage for a little bit, even looked at rings. Price tags of everything is stopping us though. The one radio station has a contest, called married on main. Basically the whole downtown businesses got together with the radio station and have come up with this idea, where two lucky couples, who cant afford a wedding but deserve one. So i got james to enter. He wrote:

I want to marry my girlfriend, we will have been together for 6 years come June 14. I have severe social anxiety disorder, although I was doing great for the first few years of our relationship I started to become more and more affected. This has led to me quitting jobs and even being hospitalized. She has stood beside me through it all, she may not have understood all that I was/am going through but she is there by my side, even when others tell her she should leave. She is a constant source of strength to me. She reminds me of what I have when I am so depressed I feel I have nothing worth living for. She works 3 jobs to support our family (her 2 girls from previous relationship her and me) giving up kids school and sports events, because I am unable to work and there is no financial aid that will help us. With money so tight, I/we can’t even dream of buying a ring much less having a wedding, especially one to the degree that she deserves. I don't know how to put into words the Love She and I share, she has seen me at my worst and still stands beside me. She picks me up when I am down, supports me when I feel I must fall and lends a shoulder to cry on when it all seems too much. To win this wedding would mean so much to us; it would be the starting point to the rest of our lives, it would be the ultimate way of showing my love for her, it would be the realization of one of our dreams. Words do not do justice to how we would feel if chosen. Thank you for considering us and please if not for me, for her, who has given so much up to make this relationship work.



Thank You.

We got the call for the short list and did the interview to make sure our story is true and we are deserving of an all expenses paid wedding. Now we wait to see if we win or not.....


Seems so surreal ...... Could i really be getting married?? Seems like a dream that was never going to happen..... Always seemed SSSOOO unattainable. If we win, could it really be real?